CONCEPT OF CIVILIZATIONS BY SAMUEL HUNTINGTON AND THE INTERNATIONAL ORDER

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to analyze why Huntington’s ideas about civilizations, which have been much criticized, misused, and abused, continue to show amazing vitality by tackling the trends of international order. His paradigm has been a good predictor of international conflicts, but at the same time a tool that allows us to accept some primordial things. Properly understood and applied, civilizational analysis, which considers one’s strengths and weaknesses, can be used, like geopolitical analysis, as an indispensable component of planning a strategic approach.

Keywords

• civilizations
• social theory
• paradigm
• cold war
• liberal world order
• samuel huntington
• western world
• russia
• ukraine